[rescue] FS: Another BeBox

Julius Sridhar vance at ikickass.org
Sun Mar 3 20:22:35 CST 2002


On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > > What was the last IBM mainframe with a full front panel? Or do
> > > they actually still have switches / hex knobs? Or keypads, like
> > > the S/36?
> >
> > Nowadays there's a rackmount PC with specialized hardware running inside
> > the main frame. The blinkenlights to which I was referring were in the
> > DASD subsystem.
>
> I'm pretty sure the last couple zx7 systems we got in had
> an IBM laptop inside, and a couple of the 9672 systems I
> looked in had a PS/2 inside.

My G1's have a PS/2 Model 77s inside.  The G5 has a rackmount PC Server
325.  They switched to laptops?  Cool.

Peace...  Sridhar



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